Support worker jobs in Central Bedfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Central Bedfordshire in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Central Bedfordshire.

The community support and outreach role is 3.2% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Central Bedfordshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Central Bedfordshire ran at 11.9%. New starters were 24.3% of community support and outreach posts in Central Bedfordshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Central Bedfordshire ranks 6th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 175 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Central Bedfordshire workforce, the same release records 2,900 filled care worker posts, 275 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Central Bedfordshire was £13.35 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Central Bedfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Central Bedfordshire earn a median of £37,704 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Central Bedfordshire at £25,600, £12,104 below it.